For Better Or Worse

ISBN: 1479346217

Author: McCue, Robert

Condition: New

Product Description When Susan Stokes finally rids herself of her abusive husband, she thinks that the worst is behind her. After marriage to Gary, she is understandable leery of romance, and devotes herself to her baby daughter, a parting gift of which Gary is unaware. She very nearly loses her life, as well as that of her daughter, when a freak car-fire totally destroys her three-month-old automobile. If it weren't for the heroic efforts of a truck-driver named Ron Blake who is following behind her at the time, she would have been cremated on the side of Interstate 10 between Beaumont, Texas and Houston. Over the next couple of weeks, one thing leads to another, and despite her determination to not "leap into another love affair," what begins as sincere gratitude gradually turns into a deep and abiding love, and the feeling is mutual. Gary Stokes, however, is nurturing a hatred for Susan as cold and bitter as interstellar space. He has plans of his own, all of which involve Susan's untimely demise, in as painful a manner as possible. The next several weeks of Susan's life turn into a nightmare that far eclipses the misery of her marriage to Gary Stokes. About the Author Robert McCue, an avid reader since he was in the third grade, began writing in 1998 "just to see if I can!' No one was more surprised than Robert when his second novel, Keeping Karen Alive, placed second place out of fifty manuscripts in the in Houston Writers Conference contest, Mainstream Fiction category. In addition to Keeping Karen Alive, he has completed two other novels, as well as several short stories. Although Robert has no formal education as a writer, he has spent many hours online and at the public library researching the craft. He studied articles on the subject by some of today's top selling authors. Robert has worked in the Petroleum and Petrochemical transportation industry since 1981, but would like nothing better than to write full-time. He is presently working on his fourth novel, called The Family Album. He lives in Deer Park, a suburb of Houston, Texas, with Sondra, his wife of forty years, a Cocker Spaniel named Brandy, and three cats.